Shocking (NOT): Religion is biggest source of injustice against gays

This seems to be too obvious to need confirmation. Nonetheless, it is nice to be data. What is the most common reason people who oppose marriage equality for gays give for their opposition?

Mind you, the 47% is the tip of the iceberg. Not infrequently, those who get their homophobia from religion lie about their true motives, such that it wins support from more people. (To be fair, some of those who support same sex marriage also name God/religion as the reason, but only 5%).

And here is more evidence of religion causing homophobia: guess how support with marriage equality is related to church attendance, and to age groups and political affiliation.

These findings are corroborated by another recent study, on regional distribution of support for equality. Not surprisingly, that is far from homogenous.

I was raised in the Islamic world. By accident of history, the plague that is entanglement of religion and government affects most Muslim majority nations a lot worse the many Christian majority (or post-Christian majority) nations. Hence, I am quite familiar with this plague. I started doubting the faith I was raised in during my teen years. After becoming familiar with the works of enlightenment philosophers, I identified myself as a deist. But it was not until a long time later, after I learned about evolutionary science, that I came to identify myself as an atheist. And only then, I came to know the religious right in the US. No need to say, that made me much more passionate about what I believe in and what I stand for. Read more...